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A 4 page research paper that addresses two topics, the first of which is the fact that slavery continues in the modern world. The second topic is the impact of slavery on the United States. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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practice, as evidenced by the impact of slavery on American society. While institutionalized slavery was declared illegal by the mid-1800s worldwide, a modern version of slavery has emerged over the
past several decades, due to the effects of globalizing industry and especially due to the development of sex tourism (Lusk and Lucas 49). In their book Modern Slavery, authors
Kevin Bales, Zoe Trodd and Alex K. Williamson assert that there are roughly 27 million slaves in the world today, which would mean, if true, that slavery in the contemporary
world is as large in the modern world as it was in history (Brown 51). The core characteristics of slavery are that one individual is under the control of another
person, which is usually due to the threat of violence; there is no compensation for labor beyond what is needed for survival; and the individuals labor is used by those
controlling them for their own monetary gain (Lusk and Lucas 49). Contemporary slavery is closely associated with human trafficking, as basically the two practices amount to the same thing, that
is, the exploitation of young people for the purposes of prostitution. However, there are also other forms of slavery existent in the world today. For example, debt bondage is the
most commonly found form of modern slavery. In this form, individuals agree to use their capacity to perform work as a collateral in order to receive a loan. However, this
amounts to enslavement, in the majority of cases, because the terms of the loan are open-ended and the debt is considered paid only when the lender decides that this has
occurred (Lusk and Lucas 50). Typically, the debtor is charged extraordinary amounts for housing, clothing and food while working off the debt, which means that the debt increases over time,
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